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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook
Attendance January Winter Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this January SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, su
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PreK - 6th
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SMARTBOARD Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity
Smartboard Christmas activity - identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Students have to read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. This is a digital resource. YOU MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE for this version.* Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Each song has a snowflake link to a mus
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Smart STEM Tallest Christmas Tree
Tis the season for holiday STEM! Here is a SmartBoard activity that I made for a 2nd grade class. This Smart has directions, materials, charts and timers for the activity. Students are to build the tallest Christmas tree that they can in 15 minutes. At the beginning, I have the jobs broken down. For my class, I will not assign specific jobs, but for some classes it could be needed. For older grades, have the students graph their data they collected.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Smartboard - I Mustache You Text Structure Game!
Do your kiddos need practice with nonfiction text structures? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1: Match & Sorts - students play games to practice definitions, signal words, and tricky cause and effect sorts. In section 2: Questions - Choose a question card and answer various questions about text structures.
If you like this p
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)
This is a unique and engaging way to introduce how to make an inference with your students. For this lesson you will tell students that you want them to help you solve a mystery. Tell them that you have some new neighbors that you have never met before and the family keeps to themselves. Explain that you wanted to find out more about them and you got lucky: it was garbage bag day and they left a small bag of garbage on the curb. Hold up the premade bag of "garbage" you made to share with student
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2nd - 7th
Christmas Lights SMART Board Attendance Activity w/ Animation and Sound
Let's have a day that's merry and bright! Students tap their Christmas light to turn it on. A Christmas bell chimes as the light turns from white to red or green!
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
Created by Deb Painter, 2013
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Fifth Grade Georgia Milestones Test Prep: Earth Science Informational Texts
I created this SMART file lesson as part of my plan for preparing my students for this year's Georgia Milestones Test. All texts, organizers, etc. are attached to the SMART file slides. The SMART mini-unit includes a poem about erosion with poem analysis sheet, links to online text structures and text features lesson with two assessments, four INFORMATIONAL TEXT handouts on Earth Science topics such as coastal erosion and glaciers, a CLOSE READING activity and more. It takes 7-8 days to complete
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4th - 6th
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Graphic Novel/Comic Text Features
From beginning to end, this resource takes students step by step through learning about and developing their own comic strips. They practice writing and drawing all text features used in graphic novels. Unit has culminating activity that has students create their own comic strip.
Comes with activity sheets and assessment page.
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4th - 8th
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Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
Star Wars Greek & Latin Roots Smartboard Games
Do your kiddos need practice with Greek and Latin Root Words? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify the Root words and definitions (match & sort, pairs, vortex, letter tiles). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. This board includes activities to help kids strengthen their knowledge o
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3rd - 6th
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Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit
This Mini Unit introduces 7 Making Thinking Visible thinking routines with 7 reading strategies using a variety of books by award winning author, Patricia Polacco. This is the perfect unit to introduce or review these MTV thinking strategies!
Making Thinking Visible Routines Covered:
Zoom In, Chalk Talk, Step Inside, The Explanation Game, I Used to Think...Now I Think..., Headlines, 3-2-1 Bridge
Reading Strategies Covered:
Visualizing, Making Connections, Questioning, Determining Importance,
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3rd - 8th
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Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Christmas Songs: Set #1 (Total of 7 Songs)
Want to sing some fun Christmas Songs? This Smart Notebook file (Smartboard software) is complete with song lyrics, music notation, and PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT for a total of 7 songs.
Included in the file is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Deck the Halls, Let it Snow, We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and Frosty the Snowman."
Examine music notation concepts or just sing the songs for fun. This Smartboard file is a great resource for any classroom!
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1st - 6th
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Historical Fiction Mini-Lessons
These useful Smartboard mini-lessons will help your students how to better understand and read historical fiction. This Smart Notebook collection of lessons include a few introductory lessons and 4 mini-lessons you can immediately use in your class. This collection can easily fill an entire week of mini-lessons for your historical lesson unit. As a bonus, I included some journal prompts at the end. Enjoy!*Please Confirm You Have Access to Smart Notebook in Order to Open This File*
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Thankful for Predictions, Inferences, Drawing Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive Smartboard lesson is played like a jeopardy game. The board has 20 slides complete with short passages and answer choices. This activity is a Thanksgiving theme and all passages and questions are about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag Indian tribe, or Thanksgiving trivia. Skills addressed in this activity are Predicting, Inferring, Drawing Conclusions, and then some fun riddles and trivia. All slides are linked to a scoreboard and all slides are self checking. This can easily be
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Attendance December Christmas Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this December SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, s
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PreK - 6th
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Alice In Wonderland Similes & Metaphors Smartboard Game
This Smartboard game is a creative way to provide students with multiple opportunities to identify and interpret the meaning of metaphors and similes. It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify similes and metaphors (match and sort, pairs, vortex). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. This board includes activities to help kids strengthen their knowledge (exchange a sim
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of eight reading minilessons which focus on social issues in books. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are:
1) What are Social Issues
2) Readers Evaluate How Characters are Treated
3) Issues Hide Within the Pages of Books That You Know Well
4) R
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Best Christmas Pageant Ever SMART Response
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a wonderful book, full of exciting characters. This is a SMART Response unit designed to be used while reading this book. At the end of each chapter, students will be asked 10 questions about it. The questions are a mixed variety; multiple choice, yes/no, true/false, etc. Each chapter quiz is setup so that it can be completed independently and you can save your students' scores each day (or at the end of each chapter).
Don't have SMART Response Clickers?
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Building a Reading Life Unit Smartboard
This is a unit you can use with your students to help them build their reading life at the beginning of the year. The minilessons in this unit include:
1) How to Pick a "Just Right" Book
2) What Good Readers Do
3) Rituals and Routines
4) Goal Setting
5) Logging Your Reading
6) Marking Your Spot
7) Parts Go Together
8) Reading Faster, Stronger, and Longer
9) Establishing Partnerships
10) Reading in the Company of Partners
11) Reflecting on Your Reading Life
12) Book Recommendations
13) Stepping
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Grades:
4th - 7th
A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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Multi Meaning Word Mini Lesson PLUS Printable Word Card Game
This activity is 2 lessons in one. Begin with the SMARTboard mini lesson on multi-meaning words. Slides discuss how many of our words have more than one meaning so the reader must use the context to determine the meaning. At the end of the lesson, click on the link to the printable multi-meaning word card game. There are a total of 24 word cards and 24 sentence cards to match up to the word cards. I would suggest printing it on card stock. It was produced in color but can easily be printed
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Leprechaun Legend and Lore SMARTBOARD
This SMARTBoard lesson is full of fun and skills (but not trickery). It encompasses various language arts skills and rules while using the fun legends and lore of leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day. There is a game board that students begin with by clicking on a square with a funny leprechaun. This takes you to a slide using language arts skills such as: inferring, fact and opinion, summarization, riddles, information that is off topic, and more. All slides are linked to a score board so that stu
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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